As of 2026, cryptocurrency regulation has moved from debate to enforcement. A total of 68 countries have enacted or proposed crypto specific legislation, a 62% increase in just two years, while over 92% of global jurisdictions have tightened rules in some form. From the EU’s MiCA framework to the US GENIUS Act and CARF aligned
In just 48 hours, approximately $13 billion has been withdrawn from the DeFi market following the KelpDAO exploit on April 18—an incident now regarded as the largest decentralized finance hack of 2026. Beyond the direct loss of roughly $290 million, the event triggered a massive wave of liquidity withdrawals that quickly spread to lending protocols
Something unusual is happening in the Pudgy Penguins ecosystem. The project’s native token, PENGU, has surged roughly 8% in the past 24 hours – but if you checked the NFT floor price on OpenSea, you’d barely notice a ripple. That divergence between the token and the underlying NFT collection isn’t noise. It’s a signal, and
This is a developing story. Figures may have changed since publication. One of DeFi’s largest exploits in recent memory has taken a sharp new turn after the Kelp DAO hacker began moving around $175 million in Ethereum and appears to have started laundering the stolen funds. The attacker’s on‑chain reaction came almost immediately after Arbitrum’s
The way people trade crypto has shifted significantly over the past few years. Decentralized exchanges are no longer just a workaround for those looking to avoid centralized platforms. They have become a legitimate and growing part of how the market moves, attracting everyone from retail traders to institutions. This shift is playing out across blockchains,
Just recently, the Ethereum network reached a historic milestone in the first quarter of 2026 by processing 200.4 million base-layer transactions. The number marks Ethereum’s Q1 as the busiest quarter in the protocol’s history and the first time transaction volume has ever crossed the 200 million threshold, which also caps a multi-year U-shaped recovery, more
Introduction: Why Manual Trading in 2026 Is Losing You Money You already know the feeling. You set an alert, go to sleep, and wake up to find the trade moved — and closed — while you were out. You check the chart, see the perfect entry you missed, and feel that familiar mix of frustration
Two of the world’s most aggressive institutional crypto buyers have doubled down in a single week, and history suggests the NFT market is paying close attention. In the seven days ending April 19, 2026, Michael Saylor’s Strategy and BitMine Immersion Technologies combined to deploy just under $3 billion into Bitcoin and Ethereum. The scale is
Finding a crypto credit card that can actually fit into everyday spend, deliver real rewards, manage fees, and still make sense in a volatile crypto market can be harder than it looks. Most crypto cards promise strong cashback, but the underlying structures for credit, wallet control, assets, and payment rules often determine how useful they
Kelp DAO — a liquid restaking protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem — was exploited for approximately $290 million on April 18, 2026, forcing the project to pause rsETH contracts on both mainnet and multiple Layer 2 networks for investigation. The incident was identified as being related to security configurations in the cross-chain system using LayerZero,